Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-05
The Senate Passes Hoar's Substitut,
for the Beck Railroad Attorneys
Bill by 80 10 IA.
The President Returns Two Private Pen
sion Bills % the House without
His Approval.
MIX CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.


United States. He asked that the sub
stitute be read, aud moved that the mat
ter be taken up Tor consideration.
Senator Hale said the substitute was q
long document, and he obi cted to its i'm
mediate consideration. The joint resO-
luton was placed on the calendar, and
Senator Hoar gave notice that he would
call it up for action at the first possible
moment
A resolution offered ny Senator Call
Yesterday while the doors were closed
making the daily session from II a. m. to
Q .. m. was tax up and referred to the
committee on appropriations.
The jill for holding term Of the Uuited
States Circuit court at TeXar @ana, Tex,
was taken up, amended and passed.
The S-nate then proceeded to the con-
sideration Of the Senate bill to credit and
paw the several states and territories and
the District Of Columbia all tie moneys
collected under tn direct tax levied by
the act of August ), 1861. The bill was
passed with hut one dissenting vote, Sen
atOr Van WyCk,
The Senate then took up the railroad
attorney bill. After a speech by Senator
Wilson Of Iowa the Senate proceeded to
vote on the bill. The first vote was on
the amendment offered by Senator HOar
making it unla wful for member of Con-
gress to accept employment as attorney
IN opposition to the United States in any
case to which the United States may be L
party, or in which Its interests may be
concerned, or from any subsidized rail-
road company if such member
have cause TO believe that measures
specially affecting the interests of such
railroad are pending before Congress
or are about to be so pending during his
term of office. The amendment, which
was in the nature of substitute to the
original bill, was agreed tG-yeas 26,
NAYS 81.
The next question was on the amend
ment offered by Senator Saul sbury as
substitute to the substitute re-
ported by the Judiciary committee.
Senator Beck argued against Sen
atOr Saulsbury's amendment. If that
amendment became law he said it was
little better than nothing, but it was so
nearly nothing that it was hardly worth
while for the Senate to take up time
about it. 1t allowed any Senator or
Representative to be counsel in all the
great suits of these railroad
companies. They might sit in
either house with 100000 of money OF
the Union Pacific, Central Pacific or
Northern Pacific in their pockets, and yet
because they had got no fee in the par
ticuIar matter which Congress was con-
sidering, although they might have re-
ceived fees in other matters and
have been employed on pur-
pose without their knowledge and
consent perhaps, they were to be
regarded as disinterested men. There
was to-day in controversy with these
great land grant railroad companies over
500, 200, 900. The judiciary committee
mad been sitting all day yesterday seeking
to devise ways and means how best to
settle with these companies, and
tomorrow that question might be
precipitated on the Senate The
object Of his bill was to
say that those members of Congress who
were on any preteXt whatever IN the en-
ployment of the companies and who pro-
baby received fees ten times out of pro-
portion to their services in order to have
their friendship, should not occupy such
relations. Every enemy of his bill, every
man who sought TO defeat it by direct or
Indirect means, was amending it or
adding to it and experimenting.
He believed that the SeDa-
tor from De laware was himself friendly
to the purpose of the bill, but
that the Senator had been made to be-
lieYe that the measure WAS too harsh. He
appealed to the Senate to take fair vote |
on the bill as presented, and as once
voted for sHd passed IN the Senate. Let !
there not be any evasion on that question, |
let them not 60 before the country |
apd assume that they wera doing
something which was equivalent to the |
original bill and would reach the evil,
while the fact was that every substitute
and amendment suggested was either to
make the bill ridiculous or leave the evil
untouched
Senator Hoar characterized the original
bill as grossly uuc Institutional, awkward,
crude, i'll drawn, i'll considered, Ill con-
ceived scheme which was not only an in
suit 10 the Senste, but an insult to the
American people. The bill was not the
outcome OF any popular or public de-
mand. II came from any Of the one
horse articles published by blackmailers,
and stock iobbers and news
parers. He mad heard enough of this ar
rogant, insulting, dOmlneering style of
attempting to brighten the Senators from
what they consldt red their duty.
Senator S4ulsbury'S amendment was
reiected-yeas %, nays 81.
The committee substitute was rejected
yeas none, nays "a.
An amendment offered by Senator Hoar
making it unlawful for members of Con-
gress to hold real estate in the District of
Columbia, except as residences, was re
iected-yeas 6, nays 40, the yeas being
Senators Butler, Hale, Hoar, Pugh, Teller
and Payne.
Finally Senator Hoar'S first amendment,
slightly modified, was adopted as sub
stitute-yeas 80, nays 2l, and then the
bill in that shape WAS reported to the Sen
ate, the proceedings up to this point be-
ing in committee Ct the whole.
Senator B OK moved his original bill
as substitute, ana it was rejected
yeas II; nays SO.
At this stage of the proceedings Sem
ator Teller rose and expressed his inten-
ton of voting against the bill. 1t had been
SAID by the e ntleman from Kentucky
that those who were posed to this class
of legislation were dishonest.
Senator Beck [interrupttng) "Thstis
not true; that is untrue"
Senator Teller, continuing without :
needing the interruption, said those who
were opposed 70 this legislation had been